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Show PARIS RESTRICTING USE OF GASOLINE As Result Pleasure Motor Cars Are Disappearing From Streets of the City. By HENHY G. WAIiES, International News Service Staff Correspondent. By International News Service. PARIS, March 10 (by mail). The au thorities are enforcing strictly the new law prohibiting the - use of gasoline in motor cars by individuals unless they have special permits from the government govern-ment asserting they are employed in the national defense. Gradually pleasure motor cars are disappearing dis-appearing from the streets and boulevards boule-vards of the capital, and outside the city limits there is practically no pleasure traffic at all. Military police stop all automobiles in the suburbs and demand their papers from the occupants of the machine, even though they be in uniform. uni-form. Numbers of limousines and touring cars owned by individuals in Paris are "camouflaged" with rod crosses, painted on them, and the owner, if slopped by a policeman, shows his or her papers as a member of one of tiie thousand-and-one charity relief war works that have been organized in the last three and a half years. Although these "papers" will usually go with a policeman, thpy are not sufficient suffi-cient to entitle the holder to a permit for gasoline, and gradually. as their stocks of fuel expire, the owners of these "camouflaged" cars are forced to store them away in their garages. |